Abandon the Internet and create a global mesh network by and for the users.

Just as interstate travel used to involve horses. You are absolutely terrible at correlation/causation.

Where is the internet defined by the word “wires”?

It is trivial to block the offending culprits. I browse new/all and with a very short list, I don’t ever see a single repost bot on my feed.

You’re as bad as the billionaires if you entertain the thought, luckily you’re just powerless to put it into action.

Nobody needs to die to fix the issue. They just need to be held accountable for the things they do instead of being enabled by the system that’s supposed to keep them in check.

If one billionaire went to prison and lost their wealth, the rest would fall in line immediately.

Thanks for the ad, bot.

Community overlap has existed as long as the ability to create communities has. There’s no answer you’re going to get that will satisfy you in regards to your question like “Oh, you don’t have to be helpful when answering in !asklemmy”.

I’ve found the “bird feeder”, “backyard for your cat”, “yule log” or “fireplace” searches on youtube result in some sound that isn’t offensive to me and there are videos longer than an entire day for some of them.

I don’t know of any sources other than youtube but perhaps there’s something on soundcloud as well.

Scroll new/all (with a well-prepared blocklist) so relatively agnostic towards the instance, the only thing I focus on is trying to find one least likely to fold in a month when the group running it realize that spam/bots/costs need to be taken into consideration.

Piefed, since it’s such a more polished experience compared to Lemmy.

I’ve given Mastodon, Loops and Pixelfed many chances but they never provide content that holds my interest.

Who could have foreseen that putting a heroin addict in charge of America’s health could result in lower health metrics?

Sometimes the article is “AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle”, sometimes is “AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk”

Well, you can’t be too sure you’re using the correct ragebait if you don’t do a comparison.

No.

Don’t forget that simply having that opinion makes you a terrorist as well.

I did read that but that doesn’t fit the title’s claim of

disparities in access

The access is there, they are simply choosing not to use it.

The poorer people are the only ones that would literally have a disparity in access, as it can get quite expensive to use.

I think a lot of it is the neverending push to put it everywhere by the billionaires that are counting on it to make them the first quadrillionaire. AI-first browsers, AI search, AI assistants, AI support, AI therapy, AI cameras, AI birdfeeders, AI healthcare, AI price manipulation at the grocery store, you can’t buy memory because AI, false arrests because of faulty AI facial recognition, etc. Then add in the surveillance factor where we are being turned into a fascist police state.

The pushback is because they aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they are turning everything they touch into shit, releasing stuff that’s clearly not ready for the real world in an effort to stay ahead of everyone one else in the contract race.

TL;DR Poor people can’t afford stuff.

Next in breaking news: Water is wet and shoes go on your feet.

Ozzy’s not his dad, it’s the family’s marketable brand. He’s grown up watching his entire family exploit the persona for profit so it makes complete sense that he would feel no sense of cringe or shame at marketing an AI designed to mimic his dead father.

Sometimes literally loud(New Jersey residents raise your hands), but usually also overbearing, painfully extroverted, having to control conversations, injecting themselves into what didn’t need them, etc.

I’m not judging from the outside. As an American that at one time was married to an Australian, we met when I was stationed there and we were both at the same base so I would see how my squadmates behaved then later when they had gone off to the racks, I’d get to hear the Aussie service members mock and laugh at some of the behaviors of the guys I came over with. They would joke that I had to be an immigrant because I rarely talked.

It’s not an “all Americans do this” type of thing, it’s that the Americans that do this are so impactful in a negative way that it becomes a cliched caricature. If you’re not that type of person, you won’t need to do anything to assimilate, you’ll fit in just fine. Those folks were some of the best people I’ve ever met in my life and they were very welcoming and inclusive.

I’ve been trending that direction for decades. It makes you want to prune even the necessary conversations and makes you anxious in environments or situations where conversation might occur.

Overalll, I appreciate it although I’m sure it’s not for everyone.

Fuck your showerthought.